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A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.
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O Pioneers!
This week, Andrew Holter takes us into the extraordinary world of Helen Keller, in her own words; and Peter Maber hails a magnificent retrospective of Yoko Ono's radical art and music.
'Autobiographies and Other Writings', by Helen Keller
'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind', Tate Modern, London, until 1 September 2024
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Between The Sheets
This week, Miranda France contemplates the final novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; and Nicola Shulman on what women write in their diaries.
'Until August', by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Anne McLean
'Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries', by Sarah Gristwood
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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A Worm’s-eye View
This week, novelist William Boyd praises a polyphonic account of a pivotal wartime moment; and Sarah Richmond explores how we may escape ceaseless toil.
‘November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II’, by Peter Englund, translated by Peter Graves
‘Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take it Back’, by Elizabeth Anderson
‘After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time’, by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Revivals
This week, Damon Galgut praises Diane Oliver's exceptional short stories, newly published over half a century after her death; and Rosemary Waugh on theatre director Yaël Farber's visceral engagement with Shakespearean tragedy.
'Neighbors and Other Stories', by Diane Oliver
'King Lear', by William Shakespeare, directed by Yaël Farber, at the
Almeida Theatre, London, until March 30, 2024
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Cometh the Hour
This week, Fintan O'Toole assesses what makes Labour leader Keir Starmer tick; and Linda Kinstler on the Ukrainian writer, musician and activist Serhiy Zhadan's chronicles of life during wartime. Plus John Kinsella reads his new poem, 'Rooks'.
'Keir Starmer: The Biography', by Tom Baldwin
'Rooks', by John Kinsella
'How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
'Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Flights of Fantasy
This week, comedian and actor Tim Key introduces us to his new book of poetry; and Devoney Looser on the bold runaway women of early British novels.
'Chapters', by Tim Key, designed by Emily Juniper
'Gone Girls,1684–1901: Flights of feminist resistance in the
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel', by Nora Gilbert
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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